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The effect of amendment 8 is consequently that a person’s legal status as a candidate will begin on 25 March 2021, not 24 March 2021, in line with the usual arrangements.
Those reports make it clear that a number of relevant impacts and risks have emerged since March, including greater risk of domestic abuse due to lockdown; challenges in access to safe housing; constraints in relation to safe spaces; challenges for front-line services in offering support; increased risk of sexual exploitation; and perpetrators being more hi...
We have not done analysis based on size, but about a third of respondents so far say that they have insufficient funds to get them through to the end of the financial year ending next March. Those organisations are in crisis.
The wayleave right, as outlined in the policy memorandum to the bill that was published by the Scottish Government in March, indicates that it would be possible to build a heat network up to an anchor-load building.
It has been 15 months since the Ayrshire growth deal was agreed, on 8 March 2019, after much dithering by the UK Government, and much work has been done behind the scenes, not least by North Ayrshire Council’s officers.
We had our first discussion on the issue right at the end of March or the beginning of April; we can certainly follow up on that and have a second conversation about it.
We will continue to deliver better support for new mothers who experience mental health problems, and we will meet our pledge to provide an additional 800 mental health professionals by March 2022 in settings such as hospitals, general practice surgeries and prisons.
In terms of provision of relief, the regulations provide for 100 per cent non-domestic rates relief from business rates, from 1 April 2018 until 31 March 2021, for properties “wholly or mainly used” as day nurseries “within the meaning of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980”.
When we signed the grant agreement, we communicated with the DWP in the very early stages of the interim implementation period, between October and March, about our position with regard to protecting the date of claim.
—Official Report, Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee, 6 March 2019; c 21. That is an important point, and I would argue that you can only do that if a safe limit is established nationally.